04390cpcaa2200805 a 4500 mm 75014522 DLC 20260227111616.0 cr ||||||||||| 760517|||||||||||| eng mm 75014522 ms 77001500 DLC dacs DLC DLC N lcmd Butler, Charles, 1802-1897. Charles Butler papers, 1819-1929 (bulk 1825-1894). 2,172 items. 5 containers. 4 microfilm reels. 3 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence; travel diaries (1833) of a trip to Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana; legal, financial, and business papers; and maps, newspaper clippings, and other papers documenting Butler's involvement in New York politics and his interest in such matters as anti-Masonry, public debts in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan, loans to farmers by the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, legal cases (particularly the William Morgan kidnapping), and improvements in transportation, especially in roads, canals, and railroads. Family correspondents include his wife, Eliza A. Ogden Butler, his brother, Benjamin F. Butler, and his brother-in-law, William B. Ogden. Other correspondents include George Bancroft, William Bard, John Bigelow, Edward C. Bissell, Arthur Bronson, Isaac Bronson, Edwin Croswell, George William Curtis, Elon Farnsworth, John Fiske, Mark Hopkins, Lucius Lyon, William L. Marcy, William Morgan, William B. Ogden, Thomas W. Olcott, Martin Van Buren, and Bowen Whiting. Microfilm edition available, in part, no. 16,610. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service. Entrepreneur, lawyer, and philanthropist. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001038 Bancroft, George, 1800-1891 Correspondence. Bard, William, 1778-1853 Correspondence. Bigelow, John, 1817-1911 Correspondence. Bissell, Edward C. Correspondence. Bronson, Arthur Correspondence. Bronson, Isaac, 1760-1838 Correspondence. Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1795-1858 Correspondence. Butler, Eliza A. Ogden Correspondence. Croswell, Edwin, 1797-1871 Correspondence. Curtis, George William, 1824-1892 Correspondence. Farnsworth, Elon, 1799-1877 Correspondence. Fiske, John, 1842-1901 Correspondence. Hopkins, Mark, 1813-1878 Correspondence. Lyon, Lucius, 1800-1851 Correspondence. Marcy, William L. (William Learned), 1786-1857 Correspondence. Morgan, William, 1774-approximately 1826. Ogden, William B. (William Butler), 1805-1877 Correspondence. Olcott, Thomas W. (Thomas Worth), 1795-1880 Correspondence. Van Buren, Martin, 1782-1862 Correspondence. Whiting, Bowen Correspondence. Antimasonic Party. New York Life Insurance and Trust Company. Agricultural credit. Canals. Debts, Public Illinois. Debts, Public Indiana. Debts, Public Michigan. Freemasonry. Maps. Railroads. Transportation. Illinois Description and travel. Indiana Description and travel. Michigan Description and travel. New York (State) Politics and government 1775-1865. Businessmen. itoamc Lawyers. itoamc Philanthropists. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001038 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms001038.3 39331 39331